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Andrew Clement "Clem" Alexander was a member of the Huron Party which left Edmonton, Alberta in the March of 1898 for the Klondike. Clem arrived in Dawson in June of 1899 after wintering in Windy City. After 6 years in Dawson, he left for Fairbanks where he did strike gold. He returned to the Yukon in 1907 on a honeymoon trip by dogsled with his wife, Eleanor. In 1912, he left Alaska by way of Whitehorse along with his wife, son Reid and daughter Jean.

Montague Ewart Alford was born in 1923 in Cornwall, England. He attended technical school there and eventually became a senior designer of aeronautical tools and dies. After his immigration to Canada in 1948, Mr. Alford began work as a Hydrometric Surveyor. He became the officer in charge of the Water Survey Canada Office in Whitehorse, Yukon and, following a secondment to the National Water Research Project, he retired. Mr. Alford has mountaineered extensively, joined expeditions, written books and articles on many topics, and is a member of the Order of Canada. He continues to live in Whitehorse.

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Jessie Alfred lived at Pelly Crossing with her husband Johnny Alfred and their family.

Lt. Col. A.B. Allard served as Chief Superintendent of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Yukon Territory, 1926-1927, and 1931-1934. During these stints of service he, his wife and daughter, Dorothy lived in the commanding officer's residence in Dawson City. Lt. Col. Allard died in 1967.

Nora Jean Isabel Camp was born in Calgary in 1916. She was also known as Mickey, and as Camp. She graduated from Crescent Heights High School in Calgary and from Calgary Normal School. She taught for five years in various districts of Alberta before resigning and moving to Dawson, Yukon in 1941. In Dawson, she worked as a waitress at the Bluebird Restaurant and wrote the social column for the Dawson newspaper. She taught school in Carcross from 1942 to 1944 and then in Whitehorse from 1945 to 1947. In 1947, she moved to Powell River, British Columbia, and was living there in 1996. In 1948, she married Lawrence "Scotty" de Wynter. They had five children.